I was loving this game on a first playthrough and I really thought I was doing things well. However, for some reason I found Asterion really hates MC and fears him, this confuses me a lot, since I strongly believe I have good enough reason to have made good enough choices.
Spoiler warning ahead!
I'm currently at a point in the story where I am locked in a ruthless route and... It's nothing like what I was having before it. My MC only ever sent Asterion out when Argos promised not to do harm, but I wasn't that inclined to say I was naive because of it. In fact: it makes sense, to my mind, that I should send Asterion out believing Argos wouldn't touch him, and it wasn't all for nothing since it got us the mirror.
After the previous point, I believe I wasn't given enough chances to explain or fix my actions, only one dialogue choice (The one when I'm confronted with Argos the day after). Besides, I believed it would have been a good enough apology to look for Asterion's wine without ever sending him to the valley again.
Now I find that Asterion fears me and everyone hates me after the concert, which really felt puzzling. Then there was the ruthless master description, which depicted MC as someone obsessed with sending Asterion out for the artifacts (which, mind you, I haven't got any + I never sent Asterion out after what Argos did). This is the one point that really disconnected me from the story.
I'm currently at a point where MC depicts a character who I simply disagree with completely. Maybe my dialogue choices were taken to the extreme? But if that's the case, I feel like I didn't have much agency to explain myself better throughout the story, then.
However I feel right now, and although I feel like the dialogues were too harshly extreme, I still love the story and look forward to reading more!